Overall, there is a trend of increasing activity with higher temperatures and a decrease in insect activity with decreasing temperature (Fig. 2). We used T-tests to determine whether the experimental means differ significantly from the hypothesized means. In the arena where the temperature was increased, we observed a linear increase in insect activity count from 0 at 10.6°C up to 10 at 21.8°C, persisting at 10 above that temperature (Table 1). Similarly, in the arena where temperature was decreased, we recorded an activity count that decreased from 10 at 26.0°C to 0 at 10.2°C, persisting at 0 under that temperature (Table 1). Figure 2 shows similar trends in activity count for both arenas, with increasing activity being correlated with increasing temperature. This increase in activity is strongly linearly correlated in both groups with an R2 of 0.8874 for the decreasing temperature group and an R2 of 0.8893 for the increasing temperature group (Fig. 2).
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